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Item:312426811493This auction is for WONDER WOMAN #291-293 from 1982. They form a three-part story written by Roy Thomas with art by Gene Colan. Wonder Woman #291 starts the three-part epic. Wonder Woman encounters a strange giant being called the Adjuciator on a Washington, D. C. mall. She learns through her magic lasso that he visits planets at the height of their civilization and then revisits them centuries later, and, if they have become sufficiently decadent, he destroys them. Earth is a conundrum to him, having survived its decadence and pollution for decades, so he decides to judge the four Earths most closely bound to Earth-One...namely, Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-X, and a hitherto-unknown “Earth-I”. Wonder Woman has no power to stop the Adjuciator from departing, but she does summon a meeting of the Justice League (to which Superman invites Supergirl) to deal with the problem. Black Canary goes to alert the Justice Society on Earth-Two. Most of the JLA members leave to begin their own methods of monitoring the globe for menaces. But Zatanna remains behind with Wonder Woman, and uses her magic to take them to the place where the Adjuciator’s first agent will strike. The agent, one of the Adjuciator’s versions of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, is Famine, and strikes in India. Though he inflicts terrible hunger on Wonder Woman and Zatanna, the two heroines fight back with magic and super-powers and repulse him. The Adjuciator calls Famine back, and Wonder Woman and Zatanna wonder where he will strike next. In Wonder Woman #292, on Earth-Two, Black Canary, Power Girl, and the Huntress fight and finally defeat Plague, the second Horseman, while Supergirl, Madame Xanadu, and Phantom Lady combine forces to beat War on Earth-X. In Wonder Woman #293, at Titans Tower, Raven collapses in agony, and Starfire and Wonder Girl take her to Paradise Island for treatment. Queen Hippolyta reveals that the source of her pain is in another Earth, so the two Titan women travel to that world, named “Earth-I” because the inhabitants have become immortals and are ruled by pure intellect. There they fight and defeat Death, the last of the Adjuciator’s Four Horsemen, and with his recall Raven’s pain is assuaged. But the three Titans and the other heroines involved in the four-Earth war are captured by the Adjuciator, who intends to save them as specimens of the four Earths he intends to destroy. Wonder Woman escapes her prison and frees her allies, who are struck down by the Adjuciator’s power. As a last measure, the Amazon encircles him with the Magic Lasso, and asks him to think back to the time when he was first given his mission. When he says that he was given the job of judging “unimportant planets” by an Overseer to keep him “out of trouble”, he realizes that his thoughts will summon the Overseers to reclaim him, which they do. Zatanna teleports the heroines back to their proper Earths just in time. I'm an individual collector selling off his private, well-preserved collection. I’m not a professional grader, but I consider these comics in VF/NM condition. USPS media mail shipping includes delivery confirmation. Combine shipping with my other comic book auctions to save on shipping!Publisher:DC